Threat On Media Owners

DIR: Police are still clueless about elements responsible for issuing threatening letters and pamphlets to barbers and video shop owners. After barbers, hotel owners and nurses, now fresh threatening letter have been issued to public call offices (PCOs) and mobile phone sellers for displaying “obscene” pictures to attract customers. A pamphlet was dropped at Badshah Zada PCO here. The two-page pamphlet reads: “You have been committing a great sin by displaying obscene pictures. Your business can grow without these pictures, then what is the need for their display?” However, the pamphlet asked the PCO owners to remove the “obscene picturesÂ”, otherwise millions of losses would be inflicted on them.
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Video Shop owners fear attack

The local administration of the federal capital has withdrawn police force deployed at Aabpara market to protect video/audio CD’s shop owners from possible attack or action by religious students and supporters of Lal masjid, it has been observed. The sudden disappearance of police personnel from the market has brought back a sense of insecurity among the owners of CD shops as the one month deadline given by hardliners of lal Masjid to wind up business ended this week.
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